English begs/borrows/steals words from other languages all over the world. These include such terms as: carved tree, dreamtime being, freshwater people, keeping place, law woman, paint up, saltwater people, secret women’s business, smoking ceremony, songline, sorry business, welcome to country. After Captain Cook’s ship crashed into a reef in far north Queensland, they spent seven weeks in the area around what is now the Endeavour river. They include bunji, “a mate, a close friend a kinsman” (from Warlpiri and other languages of the Northern Territory and northern Queensland), boorie, “a boy, a child” (from Wiradjuri), jarjum, “a child” (from Bundjalung), kumanjayi, “a substitute name for a dead person” (from Western Desert language), pukamani “a funeral rite” (from Tiwi), rarrk “a cross-hatching design in art” (from Yolngu languages), tjukurpa, “the Dreaming; traditional law” (from Western Desert language) and yidaki, “a didgeridoo” (from Yolngu languages). Get this from a library! Here are 12 of the most common Aboriginal words used in Australia today. Soon after the initial batches of convicts arrived in Sydney from 1788 onwards, words from local languages were taken up, especially for new flora and flora and for things associated with the Indigenous people: koala, wallaby, kurrajong, waratah, woomera, corroboree. These words of Australian Aboriginal origin include some that are used frequently within Australian-English, such as kangaroo and boomerang. By using Aboriginal phrases and words as name, whether on people, fictional characters, business, houses and streets, these languages remain in use to an extent. M.Litt (UNE) The language of the Geelong area provided the mythical monster the bunyip.Some Aboriginal words, although noted in the early period, were not used widely in Australian English until much later. AUSTRALIAN PLACE NAMES In English & Guugu Yimithirr, Dyirbal, Gooniyandi, Arabana-Wangkangurru, Yagara and Yugambeh languages. Possibly, the most popular Aboriginal loanwords are plants and animals which are now in everyday use. The amphibious rodent formerly known as water rat, is now more commonly referred to in southern Australia as the rakali, from the Ngarrindjeri language.Other additions to the dictionary include (from the Noongar language of the Perth area) balga for the grass tree, coojong for the golden wreath wattle, moitch for the flooded gum and moort for Eucalyptus platypus.The increasing interest in bush tucker has meant the inclusion of akudjura for the bush tomato, from the Alyawarr language of the southern region of the Northern Territory, and gubinge, from Nyul Nyul and Yawuru of northern Western Australia, for an edible plum-like fruit.Other new terms reflect a renewed interest in aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and various kinds of activism on the part of Indigenous peoples. The rodent once called the heath mouse is now known by its indigenous name dayang, from the Woiwurrung language of the Melbourne area. In Aboriginal languages, for example, words can have multiple meanings. Said to be derived from an Aboriginal language meaning “along the way” or “plain with a river”.Is thought to be either the Nanda name for the area or to be derived from a similar word meaning “mine”.An Aboriginal name meaning “make your abode here” or “remain here”.Means ‘a beautiful place’ in one of the local Aboriginal dialects.The name ‘Araluen’ means ‘water lily’ or ‘place of the water lilies’ in the local aboriginal language.Its name is derived from the Arrernte tribe of Central Australia, previously known as Arunta and means ‘White Cockatoo’.Is Aboriginal in origin and is the name of the local springs – thought to mean “place of many granite hills”.Is of Aboriginal origins, and means “flat or plain surface”Is an Aboriginal word that means place of many winds.From the local Aboriginal tribe, Meri, meaning “a wide bend in the river”.From the local Wiradjuri language – meaning “plenty of water”.Generally believed to be Aboriginal for ‘black or white cockatoo’.Derived from the local Aboriginal word meaning “the birthplace of a notable headman of the local tribe”.An Aboriginal word meaning either ‘windy place’, ‘large swamp’ or ‘place of flooded box trees’.is An Aboriginal word for ‘a heart’ or ‘water breaking over rocks’.Is a Noongar Aboriginal name, said to mean “a place of quartz” – “Boya” means “rock” or “stone”.The origin of the suburb name is from the Yugarabul Aboriginal language meaning place of the stone axe.The name “Kabultur” is derived from the Yugarabul dialect (Kabi Aboriginal people) meaning “place of the carpet snake”Named after the Cammeraygal, the Aboriginal tribe of the North Sydney area.Thought to derive from the word Kambera or Canberry which is claimed to mean “meeting place” in the old Ngunnawal language, one of several Indigenous languages spoken in the district by Aboriginal people.Of unknown origin – although considered a Noongar word – is the local name for the mouth of the Serpentine River.The Aboriginal word for a basin-shaped wooden dish made and used by Australian Aborigines.From guaran, meaning tall trees or Moreton bay bush.The traditional owners are considered to be the Wiradjuri, with the name probably deriving from their word guudhamang for “turtle”Derived from Bundjalung Gurigay, meaning The meeting of the waters.Named after the Aboriginal Dreamtime warrior KurimulAn Aboriginal word – possibly from Dabpeto meaning “water plenty”,A local Indigenous Australian word for “long waterhole”, referring to the Walsh River that runs nearby the town.From Thung-arra, the local Wattandee people’s name for the estuary adjacent to the town, meaning ‘sea lion place’.Either the Aboriginal word for the twenty eight parrot (Dow-arn) or “place of the throwing stick” (dower).Coming from “Dambeling” which possibly means “large lake or inland sea” or “dumbung”, a game played with bent sticks and a hard piece of fruit.An Aboriginal name meaning “Meeting of the Waters” (the Murray and Campaspe Rivers ) .From a Kaurna word ‘eechungga’ which may mean either ‘a short distance’ or ‘close by’.Derived from an Aboriginal word meaning “home by the sea” or “home by the water”Derived from the local Wathaurong Aboriginal name for the region, Jillong, thought to mean “land” or “cliffs”.Thought to derive from an Aboriginal word meaning “fearful place”The name is derived from an Aboriginal word meaning “long waterhole”Thought to mean “footprint” or “place of many streams”Derived from the Aboriginal word for the creek which flows through the district of Ginin-ginin-derry which is said to mean sparkling or throwing out little rays of light.Named after the word in the language of the Wiradhuri Aboriginal tribe of the Central West of New South Wales, meaning star.The name of the townsite is Aboriginal, being derived from nearby Gnowangerup Creek and Spring meaning place where the mallee hen (Gnow) nests”.Meaning, “Yam”.

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